An artist's rendering, from 2012, that shows a proposed casino at the former Atokad racetrack in South Sioux City, Nebraska. The tribe plans to open an events center named Atokad Park at the site.
The board of commissioners in Dakota County, Nebraska, voted to support a Class III facility for the Winnebago Tribe. The tribe plans to spend $40 million to convert a former racetrack into a casino and events center. The project depends on the legalization of casino-style gaming in the state. “Every state around us has some form of gaming,” Lance Morgan, a tribal member who serves as president and CEO of Ho-Chunk Inc., the tribe's economic development corporation, told Dakota County Star. “It’s ridiculous to think, even being here on the border, that we don’t have a form of gaming. It’s about $400 million a year in terms of tax dollars that are leaking across the border.” Casino-style gaming is legal in Iowa and South Dakota but Nebraska has resisted. Get the Story:
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